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     • About 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today.
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   How many people speak more than one language?

   • Billions of people around the world speak more than one language. In the case of lingua francas —languages, such as English and French, that people learn to facilitate communication across boundaries—the high number of non-native speakers often approaches or exceeds the number of native speakers.

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   How many languages are there?

   • According to the World Atlas of Languages’ methodology, there are 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by the governments, public institutions and academic communities; out of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.

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   How many native speakers does English have?

   • For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [ 2 ] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.

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   How are human languages ranked?

   • For first- and second-language speakers, see List of languages by total number of speakers. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum.

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   Which languages have 50 million speakers?

   • Ethnologue lists the following languages as having 50 million or more total speakers. [ 4 ] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing several varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.

   List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   What is the most common language in England?

   • In England, Polish (1.1%, 591,000) was the most common main language for those who did not speak English as a main language. At a regional level, the highest percentage of people who had Polish as a main language was in the East Midlands (1.5%, 71,000).

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_by_totalList of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so they are

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	941 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu)	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Romance	486 million

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5. www.ons.gov.uk › peoplepopulationandcommunityLanguage, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

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   Nov 29, 2022 · The most common main languages, other than English (English or Welsh in Wales), were: Polish (1.1%, 612,000), Romanian (0.8%, 472,000), Panjabi (0.5%, 291,000), and Urdu (0.5%, 270,000).

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7. www.statista.com › statistics › 266808The most spoken languages worldwide 2023 - Statista

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   Jul 4, 2024 · In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of...

8. www.britannica.com › topic › languages-by-totalLanguages by total number of speakers | List, Top, & Most ...

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   Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of total speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s. For a list of languages that counts only the number of native speakers, see languages by number of native speakers. English (1,456,448,320)

9. en.wal.unesco.org › world-atlas-languagesThe World Atlas of Languages - UNESCO WAL

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   According to the World Atlas of Languages’ methodology, there are 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by the governments, public institutions and academic communities; out of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.

10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_byList of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

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    List of languages by number of native speakers. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1] For example, a language is often defined as a ...

11. www.cia.gov › about › archivesLanguages - The World Factbook

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    note 2: all told, there are estimated to be just over 7,115 languages spoken in the world (2020); approximately 80% of these languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people; about 150 languages are spoken by fewer than 10 people; communities that are isolated from each other in mountainous regions often develop multiple languages; Papua New ...